[libvirt] [PATCH 3/3] cirrus: mark as deprecated

P J P ppandit at redhat.com
Thu Oct 25 10:59:13 UTC 2018


+-- On Thu, 25 Oct 2018, Gerd Hoffmann wrote --+
| While being at it deprecate cirrus too.
| 
| Reason (short version): use stdvga instead.
| Verbose version:
|     https://www.kraxel.org/blog/2014/10/qemu-using-cirrus-considered-harmful
| 
| Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel at redhat.com>
| ---
|  hw/display/cirrus_vga.c     | 2 ++
|  hw/display/cirrus_vga_isa.c | 2 ++
|  qemu-deprecated.texi        | 4 ++++
|  3 files changed, 8 insertions(+)
| 
| diff --git a/hw/display/cirrus_vga.c b/hw/display/cirrus_vga.c
| index d9b854d..2f16ba9 100644
| --- a/hw/display/cirrus_vga.c
| +++ b/hw/display/cirrus_vga.c
| @@ -3024,6 +3024,8 @@ static void cirrus_vga_class_init(ObjectClass *klass, void *data)
|      dc->vmsd = &vmstate_pci_cirrus_vga;
|      dc->props = pci_vga_cirrus_properties;
|      dc->hotpluggable = false;
| +    dc->deprecation_reason =
| +        "https://www.kraxel.org/blog/2014/10/qemu-using-cirrus-considered-harmful";
|  }
|  
|  static const TypeInfo cirrus_vga_info = {
| diff --git a/hw/display/cirrus_vga_isa.c b/hw/display/cirrus_vga_isa.c
| index fa10b74..c2d853c 100644
| --- a/hw/display/cirrus_vga_isa.c
| +++ b/hw/display/cirrus_vga_isa.c
| @@ -81,6 +81,8 @@ static void isa_cirrus_vga_class_init(ObjectClass *klass, void *data)
|      dc->realize = isa_cirrus_vga_realizefn;
|      dc->props = isa_cirrus_vga_properties;
|      set_bit(DEVICE_CATEGORY_DISPLAY, dc->categories);
| +    dc->deprecation_reason =
| +        "https://www.kraxel.org/blog/2014/10/qemu-using-cirrus-considered-harmful";
|  }
|  
|  static const TypeInfo isa_cirrus_vga_info = {
| diff --git a/qemu-deprecated.texi b/qemu-deprecated.texi
| index 7951a4f..1b1d434 100644
| --- a/qemu-deprecated.texi
| +++ b/qemu-deprecated.texi
| @@ -120,6 +120,10 @@ or ``ivshmem-doorbell`` device types.
|  
|  Has known buffer overflow.
|  
| + at subsection cirrus (since 3.1)
| +
| +Use stdvga instead (-vga std or -device VGA).
| +
|  @section System emulator machines
|  
|  @subsection pc-0.10 and pc-0.11 (since 3.0)
| 

Reviewed-by: Prasad J Pandit <pjp at fedoraproject.org>

Thank you.
--
Prasad J Pandit / Red Hat Product Security Team
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